In May of 2012 Autumn Games, the publisher for Skullgirls, became embroiled in a lawsuit alongside Konami filed against them by City National Bank over allegations of fraud. Mike Z teamed up with Wyckoff, also a former Pandemic employee, and Reverge Labs to bring Skullgirls to home consoles. Richard Wyckoff and Emil Dotchevski began Reverge Labs in 2010 after Pandemic Studios was shut down. Some years later, mutual friends introduced them to one another, and their two personal projects were merged into the game we see today. Tournament fighter Mike “Mike Z” Zaimont had begun working on a fighting game engine, while Alex “o_8” Ahad had begun working on a world, story and characters for a fighting game. ![]() Skullgirls began its life as two separate “doujin” projects. Female fighters from all over the Kingdom seek to claim the artifact for themselves (for various different purposes), having to stop the current wielder, the Skullgirl Bloody Marie, in the process. However, women who attempt to use it with an impure heart become corrupted into a monstrous being of immense power (known as the "Skullgirl") and unleash chaos upon the world. ![]() Set in a 1940's dark Art Deco world (the Canopy Kingdom), the story revolves around a mysterious artifact called the Skull Heart, which grants a single wish to a young woman every seven years. It was re-released in 2014 on these platforms, rebranded "Skullgirls Encore". The Japanese release of the PlayStation 3 version was published by CyberFront on February 14, 2013, with a Japanese arcade release on the NESiCAxLive board system.įollowing Lab Zero's cut-off with Konami, the game was set to be removed from PlayStation Network and Xbox Live. ![]() Linux and Mac versions are being ported by outside sources with assistance from Lab Zero. It was later ported to the PC by Lab Zero and released via Steam by Marvelous AQL on August 22, 2013. Skullgirls is a 2D fighting game developed by Reverge Labs and co-published by Autumn and Konami on Xbox Live Arcade and PlayStation Network on April 10, 2012.
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